An interactive sequence: the word EARTH breaks into fragments, the fragments disperse into a field of matter, the field organises into a globe built from Natural Earth land data, and the globe unwraps into an equirectangular world map that becomes the base layer of the atlas.
01 — Heat · How does heat move?
Energy arrives at the equator and leaves at the poles.
Sunlight is unevenly distributed, so the atmosphere works permanently to redistribute it. Raise the mean anomaly and the circulation accelerates: the transport does not stop, it intensifies.
Illustrative coupling, not a forecast. The relationship shown is monotonic and directional only.
02 — Water · Where does water go?
A closed loop with no beginning.
Every parcel of water traverses the same circuit. Isolate a stage to follow it through the field; the particles you see are carrying that phase.
Warming increases atmospheric water capacity by roughly 7% per °C — the loop runs faster and heavier.
03 — Cities · Why are cities hotter?
Surfaces decide temperature.
A city is a thermal object. Concrete stores heat, vegetation evaporates it, water buffers it. Change the composition and watch the field respond.
Illustrative urban heat-island model. Monotonic response used to make trade-offs legible.
04 — Network · What keeps a city alive?
Four systems under the surface.
Power, water, transport and data occupy the same ground at different depths. Isolate one layer to see its geometry; each has a different failure signature.
Pulse frequency encodes demand, not literal throughput.
05 — Extremes · What happens under stress?
The same terrain, pushed.
Stress does not create new landscapes — it changes what the existing one does. Valleys hold water, slopes dry out. Move the dial from saturation toward ignition.
06 — Connections · How is it all linked?
Nothing here is independent.
Each node in this graph carries a load and passes it on. Select one and its dependents illuminate: the mechanism, not the metaphor.
07 — Close
The world
is not static.
It is